Carol MacLennan (SS) has received a $9,000 research and development contract from the Keweenaw Land Trust for “Historic Interpretation of Paavola and Boston Pond along the Copper Country Trail.”
From Tech Today.
Dr. Larry Lankton, professor emeritus from Michigan Technological University, will discuss “Mine Safety Issues in the 1913 Strike Era” during a special open house at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 9, in conjunction with a special exhibit at Houghton’s Carnegie Museum. The event is free and open to the public.
The exhibit, “Tumult and Tragedy: Michigan’s 1913-14 Copper Strike,” created by the Michigan Tech Archives, is currently on display through February 28 at the Carnegie Museum at the corner of Huron and Montezuma in downtown Houghton. The museum is open to the public Tuesday: 12 noon – 5:00 p.m., Thursday 12 noon – 5:00 p.m., and Saturday 12 noon – 4:00 p.m.
Read more at the Michigan Tech Archives Blog, by Erik Nordberg.
Copper miners strike inspires more exhibits
Employees of the Keweenaw National Historical Park are preparing for the recognition of the 1913-14 copper miners’ strike in the Keweenaw, and some of the park’s Heritage Site partners, who are creating exhibits to be viewed at the same time, met Thursday at park headquarters to talk of their progress.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Kurt Hauglie.
MaryBeth Spoehr, law and society major, has been nominated by the University for the Truman Scholarship. She is an ROTC cadet and on the women’s varsity soccer team.
The Truman Scholarship has two missions. First, to find and recognize college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service; and, second, to provide them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students who are committed to making a difference through public service.
From Tech Today.
Associate Provost and Dean Jacqueline E. Huntoon (Grad), Assistant Professor Mark Rouleau (SS) and Lecturer Kari Henquinet (SS), “AGEP-BPR: Developing a Model for Successful University/Industry Partnerships for Broadening Participation,” NSF.
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Special Interdisciplinary Seminar on Tuesday
Professor Wendy Eisner, Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, will be presenting “Advancing Landscape Change Research in the Arctic through the Incorporation of Iñupiaq (Eskimo) Knowledge” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Great Lakes Research Center, second floor conference room.
This lecture is cosponsored by Michigan Tech’s Center for Water and Society, the Departments of Social Sciences and Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, and the Visiting Women and Minority Lecture/Scholar Series, which is funded by the President’s Office and a grant to the Office for Institutional Diversity for the State of Michigan’s King-Chavez-Parks Initiative.
Read more at Tech Today.
Richelle Winkler (SS) has coauthored “Lakes and community: The importance of natural landscapes in social research,” in Society and Natural Resources, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2013.
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‘Turning Points’ focus of History Day 2013
Students in grades 4 through 12 across the Upper Peninsula are invited to participate in the District 1 regional competition for National History Day. The District 1 Competition is set for March 2 at Michigan Technological University in Houghton.
District 1 is comprised of 12 counties in the Central and Western Upper Peninsula. The District 1 competition is sponsored annually by the MTU Department of Social Sciences, the MTU Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, the Quincy Mine Hoist Association and the Historical Society of Michigan.
Read more at the Mining Gazette.
NATIONAL HISTORY DAY THEME 2013: Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events
Read more at the Historical Society of Michigan.
Richelle Wrinkler, assistant professor of sociology and demography, has recently published an article, “Living on lakes: Segregated communities and social exclusion in a natural amenity destination,” in The Sociological Quarterly.
From Tech Today.
Lindsey Sladek is a First Prize Winner in National Geographic’s “The Full Story” contest. The photo competition was for amateurs. Sladek’s gallery is entitled “Music.”
Sladek came “home” to Tech to take coursework in the Department of Social Sciences for a social studies secondary education certificate; she got her BS in Anthropology from Grand Valley State University in 2008.
Local photographer places in National Geographic contest
She, along with four individual winners, won a Nikon D600 to shoot the full visual story she had pitched to compete for a shot at the grand prize, a trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Digital Nomad Andrew Evans. She had from Dec. 17 to Jan. 7 to shoot the story, using only the new D600 camera.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Stephen Anderson.
Photo Contest: The Full Story
Last fall these five talented amateur photographers each won a new Nikon D600 with which they shot their own FULL STORY.
Read more at National Geographic.
Social Sciences Seminar
Tapio Litmanen, professor and academy research fellow, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, will be giving a seminar on “Mining in Finland” from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1 in the Academic Office Building, Room 201.
From Tech Today.